. Book of the Royal blue . is last trip over the mountains wesee Washington again engaged in his earlyoccupation of surveyor, at the age of fifty-two years running the lines of his ownlands in just the same manner as when,thirty-six years before, he had surveyedthe vast estates of Lord Fairfax in nearlythe same region. It is hard to realize thisintrepid soldier, this supreme great com-mander, this consummate statesman, theFather of our Country, the sublimest hero of his age, as a humble surveyor. It is asif King David, after the triumphs of hisgreat wars, had come down from his throne,had laid
. Book of the Royal blue . is last trip over the mountains wesee Washington again engaged in his earlyoccupation of surveyor, at the age of fifty-two years running the lines of his ownlands in just the same manner as when,thirty-six years before, he had surveyedthe vast estates of Lord Fairfax in nearlythe same region. It is hard to realize thisintrepid soldier, this supreme great com-mander, this consummate statesman, theFather of our Country, the sublimest hero of his age, as a humble surveyor. It is asif King David, after the triumphs of hisgreat wars, had come down from his throne,had laid aside his royal diadem and wasagain the shepherd boy of Judea. But-ludea had no such flocks as has sincegrazed upon the hills of southwestern Penn-sylvania, and the heart of Zanzibar has nosuch verdure as then clothed hill and dale,and the two months spent by Washingtonin western Pennsylvania and western Vir-ginia in the autumn of 1784 must havebeen pleasant ones; they must have recalledto him many charming l;ALTiMUUE A- UHIn RAILROAD STATION AT ,s\ 11,1,1
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